2008

Chaos, concentration, and multiple valleys

Chatterjee, Sourav

Understand

Disordered systems are an important class of models in statistical mechanics, having the defining characteristic that the energy landscape is a fixed realization of a random field.

  • Examples include various models of glasses and polymers.
  • They also arise in other areas, like fitness models in evolutionary biology.
  • The ground state of a disordered system is the state with minimum energy.

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